Welcome back to 1979, where we’re picking up with Spectacular. So, as it turns out, this issue picks up rrrrright after the previous one, which, you may recall, ended a surprisingly long…
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ASM 175
This looks pretty silly. Jim Mooney inks this one solo. As it opens, Punisher is just shooting at the escaping chopper, JJJ be damned, I guess. “I wasn’t going to shoot him!…
ASM 172
It’s the dramatic debut of The Rocket Racer! I guess! I mean, he’s not exactly the best villain ever, but here he is. Continuing the lng Marvel tradition of jumping on fads,…
TAC 008
Oh, ok. Gonna be quite the margin of error on that one. Could Paul Gulacy have gotten Spidey’s web any more wrong here? We rejoin the story right where it left off…
TAC 007
The 70s are a pretty dark period for Marvel Comics, all told. There’s certainly bright spots, but a lot of the books were not too great, and there were other problems. Chief…
TAC 157
Hey, Electro is back. It’s been exactly 100 issues since he last appeared in Spectacular. Also: “him.” Weird cover. Mike Esposito continues to ink as Electro is very annoyed. He spent a…
WEB 055
Back in the post about TAC 154, Eduardo Lobo said he & his brother had to wait for the next full moon to finish their war with Kingpin. And I thought, “That’s……
TAC 154
I am… pretty sure I know the master plan of The Puma? We’ll see. We open on Spidey reading The Bugle, wherein JJJ has credited “an unidentified passerby” with his rescue rather…
WEB 054
I feel certain I read this one as a kid. I didn’t have it, obviously (Tho I really thought I did, even). I was reading comics out of the library still, I…
TAC 151
Once upon a time (Like 3, 4 years ago as I write this), I decided I wanted to see how this Lobo Brothers thing worked. I wanted the whole scoop. So, I…